Is digital thread doomed without open architecture?
The secret sauce of open source — right-sized for now, scalable for the future. A look at Lightyear's product development journey and the enterprise architecture and data culture underpinning it.
As solar-electric vehicle manufacturer Lightyear approaches series production, digital plumber Rob Ferrone compères a session reflecting on Lightyear's product development journey and the enterprise architecture and data culture underpinning it.
Willem van den Corput reflects on Lightyear's product development journey so far, and Bas van Goch on the enterprise architecture and data culture underpinning it. Focusing on the challenge of ensuring systems are both right-sized for now and scalable for the future, Samuel Fletcher explores how the integration of rapidly deployable and comparably inexpensive open-source tools to an off-the-shelf backbone can prove attractive. Both Lightyear's QRonos BTRS integration and the creation and deployment of an MRP tool for a medical device consortium are referenced. Originally broadcast at PI DX Spotlight, May 2021.
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What this session covers
Lightyear's journey to series production
A reflection on the product development journey of a solar-electric vehicle manufacturer approaching its first series production run.
Right-sized, future-scalable
The architectural challenge of building enterprise systems that are fit for today's programme while scalable for what comes next.
Open-source on an off-the-shelf backbone
How rapidly deployable, inexpensive open-source tools can sit alongside an off-the-shelf enterprise backbone to extend capability without replacing it.
Practical cases referenced
Lightyear's QRonos BTRS integration and the creation and deployment of an MRP tool for a medical device consortium.
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